VIA THE ART NEWSPAPER
After many protests from art historians, the Louvre will go through with its plan to move 250,000 works to a store in Liévin, France. [The Art Newspaper]
Peter Schjeldahl on the “fearful frenzy” that is today’s art market. [The New Yorker]
Shepard Fairey’s arrest and the fanfare surrounding it show just how popular street art has become. [Los Angeles Times]
The Museum of Modern Art is now scientifically proven to be the loudest museum in New York. [Crain’s]
Joe Lewis has been revealed as the buyer of Portrait of Gertrud Loew-Felsövanyi, a 1902 painting by Gustav Klimt that sold for $30 million at Sotheby’s. [Der Standard]
Laura Poitras has filed a lawsuit against U.S. security agencies, claiming that they need to reveal the information about her they have collected over the past six years. [Artforum]
Rachel Harrison at Regen Projects. [Contemporary Art Daily]
The first computer art contests, held in the early ’60s, featured “electronic surrealism,” in which “the brush is an electron beam; the canvas, an oscilloscope; the painter, an electronic computer.” [The Verge]
Yesterday, at Denny Gallery, Michael Mandiberg finished printing Wikipedia in its entirety. [The New York Times]